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ABC Australia

Sunday Roundtable

This week saw two explosive political stories out of Washington: claims that President Trump disclosed classified intel to the Russian Foreign Minister and that he sought to shut down an FBI investigation into links between his former National Security Advisor and Russia. Given the chaos, the roundtable debates whether Trump faces impeachment or is he the victim of a political witch hunt?
Nicole Hemmer
Semana

Crossed the line

But as Russell Riley, a specialist in the presidency of the United States of the Miller Center of the University of Virginia told Semana, "the big problem with this president is that it confuses the simple ability to do something with the convenience of doing it."
Russell Riley
MSNBC

MSNBC "All In" with Chris Hayes

Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu, a former Obama Administration official, is interviewed about the controversies swirling around the Trump White House
Chris Lu
Vox

Roger Ailes's legacy: the road to the White House runs through Fox News

Ailes was shown the door at Fox News last July, during the Republican convention that would nominate Donald Trump. And he died yesterday at the moment his two most notable legacies, Fox News and Donald Trump, were facing existential crises — crises that were also dragging down a Republican Party he’d helped transform.
Nicole Hemmer
Washington Post

Trump can’t stop talking about the Russia probe — even if continuing might hurt him

“Nixon was much more circumspect than Donald Trump and, frankly, much more aware of what his own legal exposure was,” said Ken Hughes, a scholar at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “I was stunned when President Trump suggested that he might have tapes of his meetings with director Comey, because those would become the subject of subpoenas. They would be seen as evidence.”
Ken Hughes